www.washingtontimes.com Topics: Veteran'S Dayhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/veterans-day/?utm_medium=RSSwww.washingtontimes.com Topics: Veteran'S Dayen-usThu, 13 Nov 2014 19:38:10 -0500LETTER TO THE EDITOR: 'Happy' inappropriate for Veterans Day?http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/13/letter-to-the-editor-happy-inappropriate-for-veter/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>I was astonished to pick up my Washington Times of Nov. 11 and read at the very top a large banner: "Happy Veterans Day." I was astonished because the 11th day of the 11th month is when we as a nation pause to reflect not only on the end of ...THE WASHINGTON TIMESThu, 13 Nov 2014 19:38:10 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/13/letter-to-the-editor-happy-inappropriate-for-veter/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSBRUCE FEIN: Honoring veteranshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/11/honoring-veterans/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>It is altogether fitting that we honor veterans on Armistice Day.</p> <p>To risk that last full measure of devotion for your country is admirable.</p> <p>Thus, Alfred Lord Tennyson in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" glorified a suicidal British light cavalry attack at Balaclava during the Crimean War which left ...Bruce FeinTue, 11 Nov 2014 15:21:20 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/11/honoring-veterans/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSPhotos: Washington, D.C., marks Veterans Dayhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/11/photos-washington-dc-honors-veterans-day/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Events on and around the National Mall celebrating current and former members of the military marked Veterans Day 2014. (Click on photo below to open gallery)</p> <p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/collection/washington-dc-celebrates-veterans-day/" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.washtimes.com/media/image/2014/11/11/veteransday_014.jpg" alt="" width="458" height="304" /></a></p>Andrew HarnikTue, 11 Nov 2014 14:24:25 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/11/photos-washington-dc-honors-veterans-day/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSDEBORAH SIMMONS: Veterans Day: Honor, respect, thankshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/10/deborah-simmons-veterans-day-honor-respect-thanks/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>On Veterans Day, give honor, respect and thanks a zillion times over.</p> <p>The Concert for Valor is a musical tribute with big names expected to draw a big crowd and destined to be a really good concert.</p> <p>More than 800,000 are expected to take to the National Mall on Tuesday ...Deborah SimmonsMon, 10 Nov 2014 18:48:55 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/10/deborah-simmons-veterans-day-honor-respect-thanks/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSHeroic military war dogs get their own float in the nation's biggest Veteran's Day paradehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/10/heroic-military-war-dogs-get-their-own-float-natio/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>No parade rest here. When the nation's largest Veterans Day parade gets rolling up Fifth Avenue in New York City on Tuesday, the warrior dogs will be a part of it. Six former military dogs who saw combat in Iraq and Afghanistan will be aboard a special new float in ...Jennifer HarperMon, 10 Nov 2014 18:12:11 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/10/heroic-military-war-dogs-get-their-own-float-natio/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSHARNDEN: Honoring the sacrifices of our veteranshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/10/harnden-honoring-sacrifices-our-veterans/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>On Veterans Day a decade ago, I was with Task Force 2-2 of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division&mdash;the Big Red One&mdash;as it stormed Fallujah. Its men fought house to house rooting out insurgents, some up of whom were pumped up by amphetamines that gave them an almost superhuman ability ...Toby HarndenMon, 10 Nov 2014 18:21:43 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/10/harnden-honoring-sacrifices-our-veterans/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSDEBORAH SIMMONS: Veterans Day is a time for honor, respect and thankshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/10/deborah-simmons-veterans-day-is-a-time-for-honor-r/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p><strong>ANALYSIS/OPINION:</strong></p> <p>On Veterans Day, give honor, respect and thanks a zillion times over.</p> <p>The "Concert for Valor" is a musical tribute with big names expected to draw a big crowd and destined to be really good.</p> <p>More than 800,000 are expected to take to the National Mall on Tuesday to ...Deborah SimmonsMon, 10 Nov 2014 20:09:07 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/10/deborah-simmons-veterans-day-is-a-time-for-honor-r/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSWILLIAM PERRY PENDLEY: How Reagan saved the Vietnam Veterans Memorialhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/10/pendley-how-reagan-saved-the-vietnam-veterans-memo/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>This Veterans Day, thousands will visit the National Mall and its war memorials. Multitudes will visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, but few will know why the memorial features not just the funerary wall, with the names of the 58,286 killed in Vietnam, along a path that, according to one official ...William Perry PendleyMon, 10 Nov 2014 19:30:15 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/10/pendley-how-reagan-saved-the-vietnam-veterans-memo/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSWest Virginia Veterans Memorial undergoing repairshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/26/west-virginia-veterans-memorial-undergoing-repairs/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p> CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The West Virginia Veterans Memorial is undergoing about $1 million worth of construction to repair electrical, drainage and other problems.</p> <p> The oval monument at the Capitol Complex was closed on Memorial Day because of the construction. The project is expected to be completed before ...Mon, 26 May 2014 12:49:35 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/26/west-virginia-veterans-memorial-undergoing-repairs/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSVa. plans 1st K-9 Veterans Day observancehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/7/va-plans-1st-k-9-veterans-day-observance/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p> RICHMND, Va. (AP) - Virginia is planning its first official commemoration of K-9 Veterans Day.</p> <p> The event March 15 at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond recognizes the contributions of the dogs who have served side by side with soldiers and with police and other first-responders.</p> <p> After ...Fri, 07 Mar 2014 03:24:05 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/7/va-plans-1st-k-9-veterans-day-observance/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSVeterans Day off? Bill would grant it for vetshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/5/veterans-day-off-bill-would-grant-it-for-vets/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p> ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - With some resistance, legislation giving military veterans a legal right to Veterans Day off from work advanced Wednesday in the Minnesota Legislature.</p> <p> In pitching his bill, Rep. Andrew Falk called November 11th a day of honor that veterans have earned but that not ...BRIAN BAKSTWed, 05 Mar 2014 18:23:19 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/5/veterans-day-off-bill-would-grant-it-for-vets/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSWestwego declares Veterans Day holidayhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/15/westwego-declares-veterans-day-holiday/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p> WESTWEGO, La. (AP) - The City Council has voted to honor military veterans by declaring Veterans Day a city holiday.</p> <p> The Times-Picayune reports (http://bit.ly/1aQPQKL ) the measure had been sought for months by City Councilman Glenn Green.</p> <p> The move doesn't mean Westwego employees will get another holiday. ...Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:06:07 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/15/westwego-declares-veterans-day-holiday/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSDIBACCO: The long struggle for a proper Veterans Day observancehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/10/dibacco-the-long-struggle-for-a-proper-veterans-da/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>The singular, unfortunate lesson emanating from Armistice Day, which signaled the end of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918, was the naivete of American leaders about the future of diplomatic policy toward the world. That policy, in short, was premised on the same irrational moral barometer that punctuated the ...Thomas V. DiBaccoSun, 10 Nov 2013 20:45:16 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/10/dibacco-the-long-struggle-for-a-proper-veterans-da/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSWILSON: Honoring our debt to America's heroeshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/10/wilson-honoring-our-debt-to-americas-heroes/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>"Fulfilling our promises to the men and women who served." This is the motto of the Disabled American Veterans. On this Veterans Day, we are one step closer to fulfilling a promise to honor and fully recognize the service and sacrifice of so many. For this is the last Veterans ...Arthur H. WilsonSun, 10 Nov 2013 20:45:09 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/10/wilson-honoring-our-debt-to-americas-heroes/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSSIMMONS: Soldiers' portraits finally find their way home http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/10/simmons-soldiers-portraits-finally-find-their-way-/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p><strong>ANALYSIS/OPINION:</strong></p> <p><strong></strong>PITTSBURGH &mdash; It's easy. It's too easy, as a matter of fact.</p> <p>It's simply too easy to forget the women of the Greatest Generation who helped the men as we pay homage this Veterans Day.</p> <p>One group of such women was with the American Red Cross, and one such ...Deborah SimmonsSun, 10 Nov 2013 22:00:06 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/10/simmons-soldiers-portraits-finally-find-their-way-/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSIowa lawmaker pushes to give veterans a day off on their dayhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/10/iowa-lawmaker-pushes-to-give-veterans-a-day-off-on/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>As Veterans Day arrives, members of Congress have plenty of proposals on how to honor them &mdash; including one Iowa Democrat who has written a bill granting many veterans in the private sector a day off.</p> <p>"It's only right that our veterans are given the opportunity to be honored for ...Jacqueline KlimasSun, 10 Nov 2013 22:04:05 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/10/iowa-lawmaker-pushes-to-give-veterans-a-day-off-on/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSNation pays tribute to sacrifices of veteranshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/12/nation-pays-tribute-to-sacrifices-of-veterans/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - From sea to shining sea, the nation paid tribute to its members of the armed services Sunday, both with somber traditions such as a Virginia wreath-laying ceremony attended by President Barack Obama to honor those who didn't make it back from active duty, and more lighthearted ...CHRISTINA HOAGMon, 12 Nov 2012 08:58:06 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/12/nation-pays-tribute-to-sacrifices-of-veterans/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSNation pays tribute to sacrifices of veteranshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/11/nation-pays-tribute-to-sacrifices-of-veterans/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - From sea to shining sea, the nation paid tribute to its members of the armed services Sunday, both with somber traditions such as a Virginia wreath-laying ceremony attended by President Barack Obama to honor those who didn't make it back from active duty, and more lighthearted ...CHRISTINA HOAGSun, 11 Nov 2012 16:07:43 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/11/nation-pays-tribute-to-sacrifices-of-veterans/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSObama lays wreath in Arlington, honors veterans' sacrificehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/11/obama-lays-wreath-arlington-honors-veterans-sacrif/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>President Obama observed Veterans Day on Sunday by placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery and promising the post-9/11 generation of veterans and their families that America will care for them "as long as they walk this earth."</p> <p>On the first Veterans Day since ...Dave BoyerSun, 11 Nov 2012 12:36:00 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/11/obama-lays-wreath-arlington-honors-veterans-sacrif/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSSIMMONS: Saluting America's veteranshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/10/simmons-saluting-americas-veterans/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>There are, oh, so many stories to tell this Veterans Day weekend.</p> <p>Some are about soldiers like 90-year-old Floyd Howard Siler Sr., who landed in Normandy, France, on D-Day, eventually came to the nation's capital to raise his family and is among the many veterans of the aging "Greatest Generation," ...Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:01:26 -0500http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/10/simmons-saluting-americas-veterans/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS